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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Hello! Today is a very special day at Our Creative Corner. We are excited to welcome five talented new designers to our team and today is their very first challenge. Our wonderful host, Wendy Jensen, has challenged us to make a 3-D Valentine project. Oh my, what to make? I'm really fresh out of project ideas. And for Valentine's Day, I wanted to do something vintage. Finally I decided on a very Victorian style Valentine's greeting with this cone shaped "envelope" and a tag type greeting tucked inside. I have to say that this design is not my original idea. I saw these at Christmas on Anne's Paper Fun and thought the cone-shaped "envelope" would work great for a Valentine.

To make this, I started with an 8" heart shaped doily, traced it on to a sheet of K&Co. designer paper and cut it out, giving me two hearts of the same size. I made a tri-fold out of them and then took a 6" heart shaped doily and stamped the Classified Ads background stamp from Whimsey Stamps on it. Then it was misted with my homemade Vintage Photo glimmer mist and when dry, it was wrapped around the two larger folded hearts. I threaded a piece of shabby seam binding through the holes around the top of the smaller heart and added a toile piece stamped from Gentler Times (SU retired) colored with Copics. A sweet vintage cupid was added to the front as well as a handmade flower made with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and a vintage style SU brad.

A little pull-out tag type greeting was made for the inside featuring another vintage Valentine image, cut with a Spellbinders heart and adorned with several pieces of ribbon and lace. The sentiment is from SU's Holiday Best set.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit today. I hope you will stop by the blogs of all our new designers and wish them well. We have a lot of cute Valentine's projects to share with you so be sure to stop by the OCC blog too.

Hi Linda! It is so wonderful to see you have joined us this week! Your creation is purely stunning! I am off to Ben Franklin Monday to see if I can find the 8" hearts. I absolutely adore this Victorian vintage look and you have raised the notch up even higher for those of us who attempt this look! Gorgeous!!donnaSCH design team

Stunning Linda!! This is just the greatest!! I might have to make a few of these myself. I have a lot of ladies at church to thank for providing my family meals this week. This is a perfect Valentine's gift.

How fantastically vintage! I love all of your colors and those printed papers are gorgeous! The images you chose are so sweet and I love the little pull out heart with all of its fabric ribbons. This is so beautiful! Thanks for joining us again at Sugar Creek Hollow. Hope you keep playing. Your work is fabulous!ReneeSCH DT

Linda, as always, I adore your work!! You have the midas touch when it comes to vintage inspiration. So happy to have you play our challenge over at Sugar Creek Hollow. Hope you can join us again next week!!! Blessings to you and happy crafting! Tracy, Owner--Sugar Creek HollowPS...love the blog facelift, very nice touch.

Linda, this is just so sensational! Love the vintage images, the lace - EVERYTHING! I can't find enough words to express how much I love this. Visiting your blog is just a real treat! And, almost forgot to thank you for joining us for this week's Sugar Creek Hollow challenge! Hope you will join us again next week too!Hugs,MarshaSCH-DT

Holy cow, Linda! Doesn't look like you need another comment! I'm going to anyway! Ha! This has you written all over it!! It's gorgeous! I love the large photo so that we can see all the fine details. I really love the little tag too! Thanks for all you're doing for the team! I appreciate it. I do need to give you a hard time about how many different ways you've (mis)spelled my name this month even though I went back and corrected the posts a couple times! It's all good! I still love you! Bravo on the project!

Linda your work is always just magnificent and an inspiration to me. This is no exception and it's a perfect example of vintage style. Thanks for playing in the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge this week. We hope you'll come back and join us again next time too!Sharon, SCH-DT

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Retired from the everyday workaday world. Owner of The Funkie Junkie, a small on-line craft boutique. When I'm not packing orders, I'm indulging my passion for creating beauty by making hand-made greeting cards and other paper crafts.